The Reader 2008

Synopsis

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

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Cast

• Ralph Fiennes Michael Berg
• Kate Winslet Hanna Schmitz
• David Kross Young Michael Berg
• Lena Olin Rose Mather
• Bruno Ganz Professor Rohl
• Jeanette Hain Brigitte
• Hannah Herzsprung Julia
• Karoline Herfurth Marthe
• Volker Bruch Dieter Spenz
• Alexandra Maria Lara Young Ilana Mather

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